Played on the Strat directly into the digital recorder.

I've been practicing this. Yes, still quite a few mistakes, but this has got to be the most difficult thing I've worked on. Consider too that I'm playing it on the acoustic, the electric is much smoother. When I can get through this error free on acoustic then I think I will have accomplished something. BTW, the second two bars are not what they seem.

This recording is as rough as it gets. Just jamming with the recorder running, there are loads of mistakes and occasional flashes of excellence. I was encouraged by a friend to put this up, think of it as sitting around, having a beer and listening to some guy play guitar. If you're looking for some kind of perfection don't waste your time downloading this hour long podcast. Some of the songs on this will be re-recorded later and given a good studio treatment, project for winter 2009.

Special thanks to Kurt Wright, Lakewood Ohio, master guitar technician. He gave my Sigma DV4 a professional setup and we added a Martin Slimline, so it's plugged directly into the amp.

Hopefully this will correct the huge glitches caused by podomatics recent change, which corrupted the previous version.

This is a very rough version, recorded my first attempt at playing this on the electirc guitar. Haven't made any decisions on amp settings, drum, etc. but I had a request that I post something new. Updated version to follow before the end of the year, hopefully the finished product will sound better than this

I will never listen to surf music again (Jimi Hendrix)

Working a little studio magic and speeded it up a bit.

This time I got the drum track right

The real purpose of this one was to demonstrate the bass guitar, but I kind of like the leads too. No effects, just Strat and Marshall amp. Well, I did add a bit of echo on the fast riff in the lead, but it's minimal. Sounds OK on cheap computer speakers, but if you run it through a sound system you'll probably want to turn the bass way down,

CC and snicker requested that I remove the drum track, so here it is, no drums. I will admit, the drums have not been up to snuff.

A new version of an earlier post. This time there's an Alyssis drum machine in the background of the acoustic guitar track. Working on getting the drum machine programmed the way I want, and to put it on its own track in the mix. Also using the Strat, but ran it through the Fostex recorder rather than the Marshall amp, so the sound isn't quite what I want. Will do this one again properly in a few weeks.

Just something I was fooling around with. No effects, just the acoustic guitar.

A couple of gut-wrenching sounds from the Strat & Marshall.

If I gotta sing I guess I gotta sing. Apologies to sensitve ears, but some tunes I just can't play unless I sing too,

Go ahead, tell me that the vocals suck, it's not like I don't know it already. Still, I liked the way the guitar came out.

Rather long at 7 minutes. The first half is just bluesy riffing in G. The second half combines the riff with a rythm. Used panning features for the solo segments in the last 3 minutes or so. Used wah-wah, phase shift and g-verb for the effects throughout.

My interpretation of a Jethro Tull classic. Slight use of phase shift and wah-wah effect on the transitional riff, along with a very mild echo effect. Overall effect with EQ is very acoustic.

Using audacity software, the echo effect is not digital, it is layering of several tracks at 1/10 second out of phase with master track.